Improve cron(8)

[Eitan Adler]

+arch since hackers@ seems to be silent.

On 11 June 2014 23:56, Tomek Wałaszek <tmwalaszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I saw on the FreeBSD Ideas page topic about cron :).
> I've started updating the 'original' FreeBSD cron from sources to vixi cron
> 4.1. I think (well I hope :P) most of the features that were done in
> FreeBSD cron are now ported into vixi cron 4.1, there are unfortunately
> some missing features at the moment:
> - @every_second - this need to be done
> - -s and -o, in vixi cron 4.1 daylight time switches are enabled by
> default, at the moment there is no -s and -o options. So you need to remove
> '-s' from the cron rc script
>
> I've also added one feature from OpenBSD, crontab is poking cron using
> unix-domain socket so we don't need to have suid on crontab.
>
> Path is in the attachment. I'm testing it on my FreeBSD box and it looks
> good but anyway don't try it on production machines :).
>
> After the installation we have to do a few things:
> - Add crontab group
> - Change group to crontab on /var/cron/tabs
> - Add sticky bit on /var/cron/tabs
> - Add group write permissions on /var/cron/tabs
>
> This is still work in progress but if someone could have a look on this and
> give me some feedback it would be great.
>
> Regards,
> Tomasz Walaszek
>
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Eitan Adler